Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have, to beg him to stop studying and go to bed. He even works out lessons ahead. He has started saying 'Yes, sir,' 'Yes, thank you,' and 'No, thank you' just like a civilized human being . . . One night he did homework until midnight and then rushed off in the morning without breakfast. I made inquiry that evening: 'What if you didn't have your prep (that's English for homework)? . . . What if you went without it?' . . . 'Well, the Head . . . would send you down to his study. He wouldn...
Under present rules, men may entertain women guests in the lounges between 5 and 7 p.m. on weekdays and to 11 p.m. on weekends. But faculty and student committees are now meeting to decide if the lounge rules may be extended to 11 p.m. everyday and to midnight on weekends. Women may remain in students rooms only until 7.30 p.m. on weekdays, but-till 12.30 a.m., on weekends...
...After midnight, two FBI agents slipped into the backyard of a trim white bungalow on the outskirts of St. Joseph, Mo., tried the locked doors of the darkened house, inspected'the yard until their flashlights' beams came to a cluster of wilting yellow chrysanthemums by the back porch. Shoveling the flowers aside, the agents started digging. As the sun came up, they stopped and waited until a workman, Claude James, came along the street. They gave him a job: digging for the body of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, murdered by kidnapers who had planted the chrysanthemums over...
...study hall was made available to freshmen "on an experimental basis" from January through May last year, after considering agitation by freshmen who claimed that Lamont study time was inadequate. It was open from 9.30 p.m. to midnight on weekdays, from 7 p.m. to midnight on Saturdays and from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 to midnight on Sundays...
Manager Milton Kreis calls his Beverly-Wilshire Drugstore a "rich man's Schwab's. Our clientele is different . . . We have a Romanoff, Chasen's, LaRue type of clientele." To keep his clientele, Kreis stays open 24 hours a day (Schwab's closes at midnight), delivers sandwiches and prescriptions in a black truck with gold leaf lettering, carries such carriage-trade items as $500 hairbrushes and $250 shaving brushes. Like the best nightclubs, it has plug-in telephones (at the soda fountain) and a pressagent...